pompous

Other forms of pompous

comparative

pompouser·

superlative

pompousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pompous

What does pompous mean?

pompous means "puffed up with vanity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pompous?

pompous has 2 syllables: pom-pous. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑmpəs/.

What is another word for pompous?

Close synonyms include grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous, ceremonious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pompous a common word?

pompous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.